Start time: 11:00Place: Chiesa San VidalOrganizer:C.C.I.Late morning with classical baroque Venetian music with the ensemble “Interpreti Veneziani” just in Santo Stefano Square at the San Vidal church with a cocktail after the concert: the best way to start in relax the most crazy day of the Carnival.

Start time: 11:00Place: Campo S. AngeloTHE EARTH’S DEMONSTwo jugglers from the recently founded company NTP present the most incredible performance ever imagined, not much for what happens on stage, but for what takes place in the audience. During the show, while the artists remain grounded to the earth, the attention shifts up into the air, where it flies everything they throw. Especially because of the use of the Diablo, typical Chinese tool. Diablos of different measures (of 3cm the smaller one, of half a meter the biggest one)will be thrown up reaching an incredible height. At the closing of the performance, the diablos will fly over the audience’s heads.Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 15:00Place: Campo San PoloIn the middle of the Campo a circus tent capable of holding up to 150 seats, will host performances for kids such as theatre, clownerie and prestidigitationPartecipation costs: Free

Start time: 15:00Place: Campo S. AngeloPerformance of kathakali, classic dance-theatre of Southern India. The story is based on the great Hindu epic poem Bhagavatham. The kathakali is an art of great energy that combines within itself literature, theatre, dance and music. Its vital and soft movements are based on mime, symbolism and on magnificent and elegant theatrical expressions. The power of kathakali comes from the fusion of the moving content of the stories on Hindu divinities with the beauty and the grace of acting and dance. It has an unique role in the theatre of the world.Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 15:30Place: Canal GrandeOrganizer:Associazione Internazionale per il Carnevale di VeneziaGondolas’ parade in honor of the Consular Corps of Venice. By the Interational Association for the Venice Carnival,with the supervision of the Presidency of Minister’s Council and the Ministry of Foreign AffairsPartecipation costs: Free

Start time: 16:00Place: Campo S. AngeloA man who lost his way, a teacher who seeks his pupil.A simple, gross man and a wise, cultured man. A man who did not know anything and an all knowing man. Who is the enlighted one? A performance of great success, capable of involving everyone since it tells of all of us, and of how the strength of the heart is greater than any teaching. Live music, dances, fires, acting and singing are the ingredients of a performance capable of making both laugh and think while it stupefies the audience.Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 17:00Place: Campo S. AngeloTHE EARTH’S DEMONSTwo jugglers from the recently founded company NTP present the most incredible performance ever imagined, not much for what happens on stage, but for what takes place in the audience. During the show, while the artists remain grounded to the earth, the attention shifts up into the air, where it flies everything they throw. Especially because of the use of the Diablo, typical Chinese tool. Diablos of different measures (of 3cm the smaller one, of half a meter the biggest one)will be thrown up reaching an incredible height. At the closing of the performance, the diablos will fly over the audience’s heads.Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 18:00Place: Arsenale – Teatro PiccoloTHE DIRECTION OF A LYRIC ACTOR(Tecnique and poetry of the actor between East and West, by Teatro Tascabile of Bergamo)A journey through acting techniques, starting from the grotowskian training to Harlequin passing through Margherita Gautier, Orissi and Kathakali and crossing Mei Lan-Fang in Moscow at the presence of the Bali Topeng monkey. “In the direction of a lyric actor” seals a series of oriental dance performances, underlining not so much the contamination, but instead, the real continuity of the actor’s eastern and western techniques.Partecipation costs: Free

Meeting point at San Marco – calle Vallaresso (just in front the Harry’s Bar) to start a 40′ gondola tour in costume, ending with a lively, rich, tipycal Venetian dinner in the popular restaurant “da Bruno”.A Venetian tradition to celebrate Carnival, spending a lively evening with friends and meeting new ones.

Start time: 19:00Place: Erbaria (Rialto)Ethnic music with National and International artists at the Rialto’s Erbaria, in collaboration with the association “Il Sestiere della Musica”Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 19:00Place: Da Campo San Polo a S. Giacomo dell’OrioYorgui is a high quality street performance. Indian style acrobats, men on stilts, fireworks, masks and musicians, will create a moving and enthralling an hour and half long, parade. The performance is produced by Begat Theatre Compagnie of Paris.Partecipation costs: Free

IL BALLO DEL DOGE (11th edition)SATURDAY 21st FEBRUARY 2004FROM 8:30 PM UNTIL THE FIRST LIGHTS OF DAWNPALAZZO PISANI MORETTA ON THE GRAND CANAL

The longest running Masquerade Ball in Venice offers you an unforgettable opportunity to walk back in history. From the moment of your approach to the Palazzo Pisani Moretta, your imagination will soar… Then, upon your arrival on the doorstep, you will be welcomed into a fairy-tale world of dancers, singers, jesters, musicians, acrobats, fire-eaters. Waiters in livery will serve you a sumptuous dinner, all Guests will wear an historical costume and the wine will flow well into the wee hours of the morning.

Start time: 20:30Place: PalafeniceOne of the most popular Chinese music group, entirely formed by women, executing with the most singular and various instruments, traditional music mixed with the Western music culture.Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 20:30Place: Teatro MalibranJAYA Indian classical music from the region of KarnataMeditation and sacred music is expressed through the enchantment of Narah’s voice that will lead us to peaceful and exotic atmosphere.NARAH Since 1990 dedicates herself in learning the Indian classical music at the Intercultural School of Comparative Music where she studied North Indian singing and tampoura with Sangheeta Chatterjei and South Indian singing with Savitry Nayre. From 1988 to 1992, she sang in the choir of the Bach Academy directed by Carlos Gubert in Benares, while in Mandras she studied both the Kial style with Mangala Tiwari and Karnatiko, specific for the accompaniment of Bharata Natyamî dance, with Sir Sitarama Sharma. She also studied Drupad style with Amelia Cuni and both singing and natuvanar for dance with Ugwal Bhole.Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 20:30Place: Pescheria RialtoDancing party in the fish market with the concert of the Cristalli orchestra and distribution of frittelle, galani and vin brulé offered by the association Rialto MioPartecipation costs: Free

Gourmet gala dinner and shows, with the artistic direction by Nevia Capello, president of Acit (Italian-German cultural Association). The programme: Tzigane – Quartet of the Operette Theatre, Budapest;

The loveliest costume will receive a prize. Cotillons for ladies, prizes and surprises for all the guests.

You are kindly requested to disguise yourself, you’ll be also welcomed if you are going to wear an evening dress, matched with a symbol characterizing the Belle Epoque: black tie and top hat for gentlemen and… a touch of fantasy for ladies!

Start time: 21:00Place: Hotel DanieliOrganizer:C.C.I.A hotel is synonymous with the splendor and romance of Venice: the Danieli. A masterfully restored palace, the Danieli is mere steps from Piazza S. Marco and all of the city’s cultural landmarks. Designed in the late fourteenth century to meet the demands of Europe’s traveling nobility, the Danieli continues to set the standard for hospitality at its best. The Danieli has for generations been the hotel preferred by the discerning visitor to Venice, the favorite town of the Romantic artists in the 19th Century. This unique town was the destination of poets, painters, musicians, novelists, adventurers and the most charming Ladies of the World: the Empress Sisi of Austria, Wagner, Byron, Ruskin, Puschin, Foscolo, George Sand, Strauss, Goethe … They will come back with you and your friends in the most famous hotel of Venice with the gorgeous hall, rebuilt in the last Century following the exotic and eclectic taste of that age. Like them you will be received in a luxurious way by actors, acrobats, dancers and a classical orchestra. And a top dinner as only here you can enjoy.

Start time: 21:00Place: Palazzo Ca’ ZanardiOrganizer:Incentive Harmony di Nicolas & Jeanne-Bénédicte ArnitaParty dedicated to the baroque opera of Giambattista Pergolesi, a caustic and comical entertainment based on the eternal theme of the relationship beetween masters and servants. The Ball begins at 9.00 p.m with an elegant welcome cocktail, goes on with a seated buffet dinner with the performance of a baroque ensemble composed of musicians and actors who will play the famous opera of Pergolesi.After dinner, the party will go on with a great ball on modern music.Dress code: Costume & MaskPartecipation costs: Euro 235

Start time: 21:00Place: Fondazione LeviOrganizer:Fondazione Ugo e Olga LeviAccompanied by the piano, the great Japanese soprano will execute a recital of Japanese lyrics (Kakyoku).Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 21:00Place: Piazza San MarcoA performance that unifies, in a very original and enthralling manner, the traditions of music and sufi dance from Turkey and Pakistan, with electronic music. The Sabri Brothers, Eastern Punjab Kalyana’s natives, are since thirty years, the most famous Pakistans of the Qawwali chant, sixteenth century devotional Via Sufi chant. The “Fana” group is formed by Dervishes belonging to the Via Sufi Naqshbandi who define their genre “Sufi contemporary music”, and by dancing Dervishes who developed their style from the Mevlevi’s traditions, founded in XI century by the mystic poet Jalaluddin Rumi. The performance is an original and extraordinary event since it combines the suggestive presence of the spinning Dervishes, and it creates on stage an audio-visual performance of great impact. The “concert” atmosphere aided by amplification and electronic instruments, permits the audience to experiment at its best a dimension of great depth and total involvement.Partecipation costs: Free